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Title: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: CC27 on August 01, 2011, 03:55:58 PM
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?
   
I am having some major sticker shock today. Mind you I go to the CHEAPEST grocery store in town. No fancy nothing. This place is cement, metal racks and you bag your own everything.

Dog food was up a buck, bread prices went up and I don't think I've ever seen summer fruit so expensive in my entire life.

But the kicker was the 'Nilla Wafers by Nabisco. The box is different than I am used to so I double checked it. 11 oz... $4.08. Sigh...another old favorite that are not within my budget.

How long are prices going to go up? I'm a repetative shopper--I kinda get the same things over and over--and for years I'd spend right around $100. Today's shopping was $147--of which only $7 was meat.

Why are the food corporations pushing the American public so hard? How long until people start to protest because they are hungry? Why are they choosing to make so much unrest? It can't all be greed can it?

They just don't get it. Can you say inflation DUmmie?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1634424
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: thundley4 on August 01, 2011, 03:57:39 PM
Prices have always went up, their just using trampolines to raise them during the Obamaconomy.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 01, 2011, 03:59:04 PM
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I'm a repetative shopper

Snout--er, snort.  This, from a teacher.

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Why are they choosing to make so much unrest? It can't all be greed can it?

The greed of the Dems, liberals, and primitives; their avaricious obsession with controlling things via regulation and taxation.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Chris_ on August 01, 2011, 03:59:04 PM
Nilla Wafers?  Make your own.  Or buy the store-brand box for two dollars less.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DLR Pyro on August 01, 2011, 04:00:12 PM
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?

How's that hopey-changey thingy working out for ya, DUmmy?
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 01, 2011, 04:01:46 PM
Buy store brands, that's what we do on high priced items.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 01, 2011, 04:21:59 PM
Democrat math again....they tax the rich corporations to give to the poor.... the rich corporation has to go up on the price.... the poor buys the product the rich corpration makes ....but because of the rise in prices the poor have less money left to buy dope..... so the democrats have to raise taxes on the rich so they can give it to the poor.....the rich corporation has to go up on the price...
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: NHSparky on August 01, 2011, 04:30:17 PM
This is what happens when fuel and taxes go through the roof, DUmmies.

How do you think those items get to market?  Unicorn farts?
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 01, 2011, 04:32:48 PM
Democrat math again....they tax the rich corporations to give to the poor.... the rich corporation has to go up on the price.... the poor buys the product the rich corpration makes ....but because of the rise in prices the poor have less money left to buy dope..... so the democrats have to raise taxes on the rich so they can give it to the poor.....the rich corporation has to go up on the price...

Basically, that's it, sir, but the primitives don't get it.

Corporations don't pay taxes, which makes corporate taxes a silly idea to begin with.

Customers of corporations pay those corporate taxes, in the form of higher prices.

The primitives can't seem to understand this, though.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: kraven on August 01, 2011, 04:35:58 PM
Newbie here, but long time head shaker of over there. I originally started reading their site a few years back thinking I would see some type of sanity to explain why they think the way they do. It left me going wtf even more. I can read 1 million and 1 liberal points of view and can never figure them out.

Anyhow, this Snoutput is particularly whacked, with long, pointlessly detailed and obviously fabricated tales of stupidity. I am sure y'all know that.

He is supposedly a gay guy living with another gay guy? Is $147 his weekly shopping budget? That is a lot of food for 2 people. I spend less than that to feed 6 people.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: thundley4 on August 01, 2011, 04:38:51 PM
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts)           Mon Aug-01-11 05:18 PM
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30. That's what they want you to think. Why doesn't it require more gas to get all the groceries home
   
then?

It may take the same amount of gas, but the cost of that gas goes up DUmmie.  God they're idiots.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: jukin on August 01, 2011, 04:39:29 PM
When your communist democrat leaders spend so much that for each dollar spent there is 42 cents borrowed or printed this is the inevitable result.

It's not that prices are rising but that your dollar is worth so much less since the donks took over congress and the presidency.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 01, 2011, 04:45:40 PM
He is supposedly a gay guy living with another gay guy? Is $147 his weekly shopping budget? That is a lot of food for 2 people. I spend less than that to feed 6 people.

If you can read their posts about food without your head exploding from the pretension and cutesie word-like letter assemblages, it's not too hard to see how they burn through twice what a normal household would spend.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: ScubaGuy on August 01, 2011, 04:49:47 PM
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 05:24 PM
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32. veggie burgers up to $7.00/box from $5.17 in ONE week...
   
...that was my latest sticker shock. That's for FOUR damn soy burgers. SOY! :wtf:

That price increase is because the manufacturer knows that if you're stupid enough to be eating veggie burgers, you'll be stupid enough to pay $7 for 4 of them. :tongue:
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: kraven on August 01, 2011, 04:55:55 PM
If you can read their posts about food without your head exploding from the pretension and cutesie word-like letter assemblages, it's not too hard to see how they burn through twice what a normal household would spend.

LOL! I was reading an article a few weeks back about the plight of mothers on food-stamps having to wait until midnight to shop when their EBT cards were reloaded. Sad tale of running out of food-stamps a week before the first of the month and dragging 4 hungry kids to the store in the middle of the night. Then I saw where they were getting over $600 a month in food-stamps, to feed 1 woman and 4 kids. I spend less than that a month and have to feed a man too. I aim for $125 a week and try hard to stay under that. It can be done, but not if you are throwing prepackaged junk like vanilla wafers into the cart. And I really don't feel like we are deprived at all. If you get $600 a month in food-stamps to feed 5 people, no way should you be running out a week ahead of time. Geez, plan better!
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Evil_Conservative on August 01, 2011, 04:59:03 PM
'Nilla Wafers are not a necessity.  I think you can do without.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Chris_ on August 01, 2011, 04:59:12 PM
It's because all the hippies want us to put soy in our gas tanks.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 01, 2011, 05:12:48 PM
It's because all the hippies want us to put soy in our gas tanks.

Beat me to it.....if the prices of corn and soybeans get much higher, the farmers around here may go back to plowing and planting again.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Chris_ on August 01, 2011, 05:14:15 PM
They're already doing that here.

A biodiesel factory in the area caught on fire over the weekend.  It was a mess.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Freeper on August 01, 2011, 05:18:30 PM
I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that genius who thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00.  :-)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 01, 2011, 05:19:49 PM
I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that geniuswho thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00.  :-)

Yeah, the pie-and-jam grasswire primitive.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: BattleHymn on August 01, 2011, 05:20:04 PM
Buy store brands, that's what we do on high priced items.

Impossible.  The store brand Nilla Wafers are not all-organic free-range grass-fed variety.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Tucker on August 01, 2011, 05:22:48 PM
1st this:

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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?

Then this:

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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Mon Aug-01-11 05:50 PM
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41. Western Family Brand Vanilla Wafers were almost half the price and1 oz bigger box
   
I guess it just costs Nabisco twice as much to make a very cheap cookie.

I'd say the biggest reason in the rising cost is these guys who represent Nabisco workers nationwide.

(http://unionsbuilditbetter.com/userfiles/image/teamsters/TeamsterLogo.jpg)

Rising labor costs.<--------------
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Alpha Mare on August 01, 2011, 05:44:02 PM
I need to open a store that sells exclusively to DUmbasses. (http://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/quotidien/dollars.gif)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 01, 2011, 05:48:21 PM
I need to open a store that sells exclusively to DUmbasses. (http://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/quotidien/dollars.gif)

Another thing the primitives don't seem to understand is that if something is priced too high, the public won't buy it.

The public will either go without, or purchase a cheaper alternative.

And as companies exist to make a profit, if nobody buys their products, they don't make a profit.....and the companies go out of existence, bankrupt.

The price of $4.08 is probably fine-tuned to that sensitivity; the difference between discouraging and encouraging the public to buy it.

Primitives however have no idea how economics works--either in this society, or in any other sort of society.

And they think they're smart enough to vote.....
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 01, 2011, 06:57:37 PM
Then this:

I'd say the biggest reason in the rising cost is these guys who represent Nabisco workers nationwide.

(http://unionsbuilditbetter.com/userfiles/image/teamsters/TeamsterLogo.jpg)

Rising labor costs.<--------------

Thank You! I was just going to ask if Unions are contributing to the higher prices.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: captrandom on August 01, 2011, 06:58:18 PM
But...but...Nilla wafers are junk food right? Last week's genius idea was to tax junk food so we could sell apples in libraries...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1565197
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Celtic Rose on August 01, 2011, 07:15:44 PM
But...but...Nilla wafers are junk food right? Last week's genius idea was to tax junk food so we could sell apples in libraries...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1565197


Oh, no, Snoutport is a hard working union teacher.  He deserves cheap junk food.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Rugnuts on August 01, 2011, 07:23:21 PM
That price increase is because the manufacturer knows that if you're stupid enough to be eating veggie burgers, you'll be stupid enough to pay $7 for 4 of them. :tongue:
actually the price is up that much because the price of soybeans is way up. Ethanol subsidies has made farmers plant more corn than usual taking up field acreage that should be soybeans. I work at a soybean processing plant and have been keeping my eye on the habits of grain producers.


and you should check the ingredients of what you eat. a majority of it has something derived form soybeans. second to only high fructose corn syrup which also has to compete with ethanol. basically everything we eat has to compete with ethanol.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Tucker on August 01, 2011, 07:23:36 PM
Oh, no, Snoutport is a hard working union teacher.  He deserves cheap junk food.

The image I have of him is someone like Dom DeLuise.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: tanstaafl on August 01, 2011, 07:37:29 PM
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 05:24 PM
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32. veggie burgers up to $7.00/box from $5.17 in ONE week...
   
...that was my latest sticker shock. That's for FOUR damn soy burgers. SOY! :wtf:

Hey! Dummy. Seen the price for soybeans lately? Know why?

Every body is putting in corn. Seen the price of corn lately? Less field space for beans , wheat and alfalfa. Morons.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Rugnuts on August 01, 2011, 07:56:06 PM
Hey! Dummy. Seen the price for soybeans lately? Know why?

Every body is putting in corn. Seen the price of corn lately? Less field space for beans , wheat and alfalfa. Morons.
well WE get it. When are they going to understand it?
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: ChuckJ on August 01, 2011, 08:07:24 PM
I would have figured that snout liked creme horns.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: true_blood on August 01, 2011, 08:14:18 PM
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?
Two words - American haters. And A LOT of them are in the white mosque with that imposter.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Skul on August 01, 2011, 08:14:59 PM
I would have figured that snout liked creme horns.
Does he room with stevenumbers? :whistling:
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 01, 2011, 09:01:50 PM
Does he room with stevenumbers? :whistling:

I think Stevenumbers is 'way too straight for him.  Legally recognized or not where 'He' is, snotport claims to live in a marital-type relationship with another dude.  If I recall correctly, he plays catcher on the team, if so it's  certainly consistent with his gushingly effeminate posting style.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on August 01, 2011, 09:20:30 PM
Buy store brands, that's what we do on high priced items.

Wait for the stuff to go on sale and use a coupon.   :-)

Yeah, I'm a dude who's into couponing.  Got a problem with it?  :lmao:
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Evil_Conservative on August 01, 2011, 10:34:20 PM
Wait for the stuff to go on sale and use a coupon.   :-)

Yeah, I'm a dude who's into couponing.  Got a problem with it?  :lmao:

Nope.  We welcome everyone into the couponing world.  We are a very accepting group.  But no DUmmies.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 01, 2011, 10:55:08 PM
Nope.  We welcome everyone into the couponing world.  We are a very accepting group.  But no DUmmies.

Publix sends a $5 coupon in the mail every week, and that's the only one I ever use.
To me, that's extreme couponing.

We used to have a neighbor who had whole room in her basement taken up with coupon files and planning.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: sybilll on August 02, 2011, 02:15:49 AM
Wait for the stuff to go on sale and use a coupon.   :-)

Yeah, I'm a dude who's into couponing.  Got a problem with it?  :lmao:
A dude who is into couponing is fiscally sexy in my book.  Carry on. 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Tucker on August 02, 2011, 05:07:30 AM
Wait for the stuff to go on sale and use a coupon.   :-)

Yeah, I'm a dude who's into couponing.  Got a problem with it?  :lmao:

A couple of week ago, Harbor Freight had their 2-1/2 ton floor jack on sale. Regularly 129.99 on sale for 79.99. They let me use the 20% off coupon on top of the sale price.

I still haven't taken it out of the box.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: whiffleball on August 02, 2011, 05:49:00 AM
I'd say the biggest reason in the rising cost is these guys who represent Nabisco workers nationwide.

(http://unionsbuilditbetter.com/userfiles/image/teamsters/TeamsterLogo.jpg)

Rising labor costs.<--------------

They never, ever mention this.  I guess they enjoy assuring that some people are more equal than others when it comes to unions.  Snout shouldn't be complaining about paying for his union buds selfish demands.  In fact, he should be happy and willing to pay for Nilla's since it keeps union folks employed.  What a heartless bastard.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: AprilRazz on August 02, 2011, 06:38:33 AM
A couple of week ago, Harbor Freight had their 2-1/2 ton floor jack on sale. Regularly 129.99 on sale for 79.99. They let me use the 20% off coupon on top of the sale price.

I still haven't taken it out of the box.
I have a Harbor Freight and a Northern Tool within 5 miles of the house. All I have to do for HF is check the NRA magazine or the readers digest for coupons.
Wish Northern would do that.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 02, 2011, 06:50:45 AM
Wait for the stuff to go on sale and use a coupon.   :-)

Yeah, I'm a dude who's into couponing.  Got a problem with it?  :lmao:

:lmao:

Yep! if the coupon is good enough we wait until the product goes on sale.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Karin on August 02, 2011, 07:36:33 AM
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If I recall correctly, he plays catcher on the team
  DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?   :o   Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding. 

Listen to him gripe about household finances and crying poor.  Just a couple weeks ago, somebody posted a plea over there to please donate to Moveon.org, in order to "get rid of Fox News."  He piped up and claimed to give $20. 

Hello to the noobies, BTW. 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: ScubaGuy on August 02, 2011, 07:49:31 AM
actually the price is up that much because the price of soybeans is way up. Ethanol subsidies has made farmers plant more corn than usual taking up field acreage that should be soybeans. I work at a soybean processing plant and have been keeping my eye on the habits of grain producers.


and you should check the ingredients of what you eat. a majority of it has something derived form soybeans. second to only high fructose corn syrup which also has to compete with ethanol. basically everything we eat has to compete with ethanol.

I do know the ingredients on my 'veggie burgers'.  100% cow or 100% Bambi.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Tucker on August 02, 2011, 07:52:07 AM
 DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?   :o   Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding.  

Listen to him gripe about household finances and crying poor.  Just a couple weeks ago, somebody posted a plea over there to please donate to Moveon.org, in order to "get rid of Fox News."  He piped up and claimed to give $20.  

Hello to the noobies, BTW.  

That's what its afraid of. During one teacher conference, they read aloud some comments posted by some queer teacher and he knew they were going to link the comments to him.

Whole thing was a bouncy anyway, but his paranoia isn't. That's real.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 02, 2011, 07:53:43 AM
Whole thing was a bouncy anyway, but his paranoia isn't. That's real.

Which is stupid; we're nice people here, wouldn't hurt a fly.

However, when a primitive self-destructs on his own, we don't stand in his way.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 02, 2011, 08:20:50 AM
To dovetail with another thread, I wonder what the DUmmies would think about grocery prices if President 0bama just printed more money (ala DUmmy Manny Goldstein)?  Those Nilla Wafers would be about $10 a box.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 02, 2011, 08:28:30 AM
To dovetail with another thread, I wonder what the DUmmies would think about grocery prices if President 0bama just printed more money (ala DUmmy Manny Goldstein)?  Those Nilla Wafers would be about $10 a box.

Uh, more than ten bucks, sir, if the Big Zero did that, just printed more money.

I speak from experience here, from those years wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers peasants, and I saw this first-hand, fiat money.

The month I got there, the Ukrainian karbovanets, which had originally been issued at 2 for 1 American dollar, were selling 47 for 1 American dollar.

And then it went downhill after that.

After I'd been there about three months, it was up to 48,000 for 1 American dollar.

After I'd been there about six months, it was up to 275,000 for 1 American dollar.

I no longer remember what it was a year later, but I learned "a trillion" before the Big Zero acquainted us with that particular number.

In the meantime, wages didn't go up too; they stayed what they had been since August 1991.

If my good friend and pal Manny had his way, and the Big Zero just printed more money, pretty soon the well-paid snout primitive couldn't even buy a pair of shoelaces with his enormous teacher's salary.

Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 02, 2011, 08:34:30 AM
Uh, more than ten bucks, sir, if the Big Zero did that, just printed more money.

I speak from experience here, from those years wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers peasants, and I saw this first-hand, fiat money.

The month I got there, the Ukrainian karbovanets, which had originally been issued at 2 for 1 American dollar, were selling 47 for 1 American dollar.

And then it went downhill after that.

After I'd been there about three months, it was up to 48,000 for 1 American dollar.

After I'd been there about six months, it was up to 275,000 for 1 American dollar.

I no longer remember what it was a year later, but I learned "a trillion" before the Big Zero acquainted us with that particular number.

In the meantime, wages didn't go up too; they stayed what they had been since August 1991.

If my good friend and pal Manny had his way, and the Big Zero just printed more money, pretty soon the well-paid snout primitive couldn't even buy a pair of shoelaces with his enormous teacher's salary.



Frank, I was only throwing out a vague number to make my point.  Thanks for the added information.  If any lurking DUmmies are reading this, I wonder if they'd even believe it.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 02, 2011, 08:42:00 AM
  DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?   :o   Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding. 

Listen to him gripe about household finances and crying poor.  Just a couple weeks ago, somebody posted a plea over there to please donate to Moveon.org, in order to "get rid of Fox News."  He piped up and claimed to give $20. 

Hello to the noobies, BTW. 

Not all at one time, dear lady.  He has painted this picture brushstroke by brushstroke over some time, mainly within the past year.  I'm sure he has overshared a lot more than that, as what I posted is just what I've gleaned from excerpts reposted here; his original material is no doubt far richer in the sort of details that most people would have more sense than to put on a public website.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Skul on August 02, 2011, 12:05:09 PM
Ralph meant to say "each", instead of "box".  Honest. O-)


OK, Ralph, where's that beer you promised me?
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 02, 2011, 02:34:17 PM
DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?   :o   Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding. 
He has referred to his cohabiting homo as his "husband", but no discussion of, uh, relative positions...yet.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 02, 2011, 02:40:43 PM
Ralph meant to say "each", instead of "box".  Honest. O-)


OK, Ralph, where's that beer you promised me?

(http://thequickanddirtydirty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11510beer-will-change-the-world-posters2.jpg)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 02, 2011, 04:21:01 PM
He has referred to his cohabiting homo as his "husband", but no discussion of, uh, relative positions...yet.

There are not two 'Husbands' in these deals, but a pretense of 'Husband' and 'Wife.'  I have met some of the type who maintain that 'Husband-wife' pretense; the 'Wife' is invariably the more effeminate of the two, which tells you all you need to know to figure out who is playing what position on the team, without the necessity of buying a program.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Alpha Mare on August 03, 2011, 10:30:51 PM
I just paid $2.18 for a 12 oz. box at Wally World. Ok, three boxes.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: BEG on August 03, 2011, 10:55:38 PM
I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that genius who thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00.  :-)

As some here know my husband worked for a toy company. Their profit margin was so slim that a small bump in packaging prices, over head, computer chip prices etc could cause them to decide it wasn't worth the effort to produce the item any longer.

This is what is going to happen more and more except for the company deciding it isn't worth making a certain toy, they are going to decide it isn't worth doing business at all. 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: BEG on August 03, 2011, 10:58:17 PM
I just paid $2.18 for a 12 oz. box at Wally World. Ok, three boxes.

Give me a wafer.  Ok, 2 or 15.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Alpha Mare on August 03, 2011, 11:06:19 PM
Have a box!
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQakoCzxv6-leiu-MQQH93WWOEpm4ngY5X9VS_z241QwEvXT5hSNA)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 03, 2011, 11:08:48 PM
Four bucks for a box of vanilla wafers?
A few weeks ago they were the penny item at Publix.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Erasmus on August 04, 2011, 08:56:53 AM
Geez, I wonder if they'll ever put two and two together and figure out Bernanke and Obama have been lying about what the inflation rate really is.  Most likely, they'll sit around and complain about the corporate rich raising prices of their precious vanilla wafers.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: NHSparky on August 04, 2011, 09:49:33 AM
Geez, I wonder if they'll ever put two and two together and figure out Bernanke and Obama have been lying about what the inflation rate really is.  Most likely, they'll sit around and complain about the corporate rich raising prices of their precious vanilla wafers.

Not likely.

Cheetos, OTOH..."WHAT?  $4.59 for a bag of Cheetos?  RIOT NOW!!! DUAC!!!1Eleventy!!"
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: BattleHymn on August 04, 2011, 07:54:48 PM
Not likely.

Cheetos, OTOH..."WHAT?  $4.59 for a bag of Cheetos?  RIOT NOW!!! DUAC!!!1Eleventy!!"

Inflated money for inflated cheese products.  


This is how most of them will get their Cheetos when they run out of our confiscated money:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND0yRRpPeyo&NR=1[/youtube]

Of course, this theft tactic does have girth requirements, but fortunately for the primitives at the Dump, most are already laden with the necessary qualifications.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 05, 2011, 11:39:35 AM
Aldi's brand Vanilla Wafers are $1.49.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 05, 2011, 11:47:07 AM
Aldi's brand Vanilla Wafers are $1.49.
That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 05, 2011, 12:39:46 PM
That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.

I've noticed that too; that's why I'm not enamoured of the things.

For example, one might see a "40 cents off" coupon for a Kraft product.

Okay, forty cents isn't chicken feed, and so one checks it out.

Well, the Kraft product is $1.79, while the store brand is $1.29.....and the coupon doesn't cover that difference.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 05, 2011, 12:50:40 PM
That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.

I'm a couponer, but with prices as high as they are I started doing most of my shopping at Aldi's, and since my Husband is a snacker I stock up on Aldi's brand cookies, potato chips etc. and we find they taste just as good as the brand names, and since they're so inexpensive you don't need the coupons.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 05, 2011, 12:55:30 PM
I've noticed that too; that's why I'm not enamoured of the things.

For example, one might see a "40 cents off" coupon for a Kraft product.

Okay, forty cents isn't chicken feed, and so one checks it out.

Well, the Kraft product is $1.79, while the store brand is $1.29.....and the coupon doesn't cover that difference.

I do save some coupons for the grocery store because my store doubles up to .99. I try to eat healthier snacks and Snackwell's came out with a new healthy bar that looks like a granola bar, the grocery store had it on sale 2/$5, I had 4 .75 coupons that said Do Not Double, I bought 2 boxes and the coupons for some weird reason doubled, so I got the snack bars for $1 each. Also found out Aldi's has healthy 100 calorie snacks so I loaded up on those for me.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: franksolich on August 05, 2011, 01:03:44 PM
I do save some coupons for the grocery store because my store doubles up to .99. I try to eat healthier snacks and Snackwell's came out with a new healthy bar that looks like a granola bar, the grocery store had it on sale 2/$5, I had 4 .75 coupons that said Do Not Double, I bought 2 boxes and the coupons for some weird reason doubled, so I got the snack bars for $1 each. Also found out Aldi's has healthy 100 calorie snacks so I loaded up on those for me.

No need to explain your couponing, madam.  If it works for you, great, keep it up.

But I'm talking from the perspective of (a) a person who lives in an area where "doubling coupons" is unheard of, not done, and (b) a single male with no spouse or dependents who doesn't have to care so much about prices.

If it works for you--which it obviously does--I wouldn't change a thing.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 05, 2011, 03:30:20 PM
No need to explain your couponing, madam.  If it works for you, great, keep it up.

But I'm talking from the perspective of (a) a person who lives in an area where "doubling coupons" is unheard of, not done, and (b) a single male with no spouse or dependents who doesn't have to care so much about prices.

If it works for you--which it obviously does--I wouldn't change a thing.

I was shocked to find out that doubling doesn't go on everywhere, it seems most places don't double. In reference to the OP though, people need to make choices when times are tough, if the Nilla Wafers are too much then you switch to another brand that's cheaper, if you want to cut more corners then you start couponing, couponing can be fun but sometimes I get callouses from cutting them out but you do what you have to do to save a $ here and there.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Karin on August 05, 2011, 03:41:42 PM
From the thread, someone posted a recipe:

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eShirl  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-02-11 05:33 PM
Response to Original message
69. still only $1 for a frozen pound of taco-seasoned ground turkey at Walmart
 made a big pot of "Mexican" "American Chop Suey" casserole with it
(w/ macaroni, salsa & cheese, topped w/crushed tortilla chips)

 

That sounds disgusting, and imagine how it looks. 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 05, 2011, 03:47:33 PM
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roamer65  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-02-11 07:21 PM
Response to Original message
74. 2 boxes of Triscuit wheat crackers and a jar of Cheese Whiz - $15
   
Each one is $5 a piece...but there's no inflation....LIARS.

This is why these people have money issues, they refuse to compromise, they want what they want when they want it.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Celtic Rose on August 05, 2011, 03:51:19 PM
This is why these people have money issues, they refuse to compromise, they want what they want when they want it.

Yup, "Wheat Weaves" or whatever the local generic cracker is would be just as good.  The last time I ate Cheez Wiz I was about 14 and on a camping trip with friends, but I'm sure the generic tastes just about the same.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JLO on August 07, 2011, 12:21:29 AM
[quote Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
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Really?  Grow the hell up and quit buying Nilla Wafers if you can't afford them.  Make do with an alternative.  Or just stop eating them altogether. 

Wasted calories anyway...


No wonder so many of them complain about their finances.  There are frugal folks there that should maybe branch out, and teach some of the others.   :fuelfire:

 :rofl:
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 07, 2011, 07:50:51 AM
Some things are identical in the store brand vs. the name brand, some are not; to the extent there is a difference, the cheaper generics seem to use lower-quality shortening and sweetening which degrades the flavor from a bit to pretty significantly.  The better half went through a major couponing phase years ago, it's just not worth the time and effort anymore with fewer mouths to feed and less highly-processed food on the shopping list.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JLO on August 08, 2011, 12:51:14 AM
This gal does wonders I think.

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/military-spouses-get-hip-clip-tips-from-extreme-couponing-show-1.150618

I am blanking on how to make that a clickable link, yet it shows as such.

My short term memory is fading fast, most sincerely.   :-(
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 08, 2011, 11:34:55 AM
My short term memory is fading fast, most sincerely.   :-(

Lay off the pot.

 :stoner:

 :-)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 08, 2011, 08:13:52 PM
Snoutport made the DUFU!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2760707/posts
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: docstew on August 08, 2011, 08:49:02 PM
Publix sends a $5 coupon in the mail every week, and that's the only one I ever use.
To me, that's extreme couponing.

We used to have a neighbor who had whole room in her basement taken up with coupon files and planning.

Thank you for shopping Publix... I enjoy cashing my dividend checks every quarter.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 08, 2011, 09:02:58 PM
Thank you for shopping Publix... I enjoy cashing my dividend checks every quarter.
You're welcome. Once a month, I go to Harris Teeter, because choices at Publix are pretty limited by comparison.
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JLO on August 09, 2011, 01:02:39 AM
Lay off the pot.

 :stoner:

 :-)

Nope - a stroke.   :thatsright: 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: JLO on August 09, 2011, 01:08:57 AM
If you get $600 a month in food-stamps to feed 5 people, no way should you be running out a week ahead of time. Geez, plan better!

 :-)
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Karin on August 09, 2011, 10:14:54 AM
Tucker got a shoutout from DUFU:

Quote
BTW, Tucker at Conservative Cave correctly pointed out Unions and the high cost of foods. Don’t complain if you support Unions, just pay up and shut up!


No kidding.  Somebody's got to pay for $20/hour + sweeeeet benefits! 
Title: Re: $4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)
Post by: Ballygrl on August 09, 2011, 11:42:23 AM
Tucker got a shoutout from DUFU:

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BTW, Tucker at Conservative Cave correctly pointed out Unions and the high cost of foods. Don’t complain if you support Unions, just pay up and shut up!

No kidding.  Somebody's got to pay for $20/hour + sweeeeet benefits!

I posted that LOL, it was too good of a point not to bring up.